英音朗讀: How we could sleep better – in less time - Lily Lin Y.

We often wear our sleeplessness as a badge( yep I read it wrong) of pride – a measure of our impossibly hectic schedules. Thomas Edison, Margaret Thatcher, Martha Stewart and Donald Trump have all famously claimed to get by on just four or five hours’ sleep a night – much less than the seven-to-nine hours recommended to most adults. Many of us are following suit: according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than one third of US adults fail to get enough sleep on a regular basis. The consequences – including impaired memory and decision making, and increased risk of infection and obesity – are well known, but easy to ignore. When our immediate demands exceed the hours in the day, sleep is still our top sacrifice. But what if we were able to simply optimise the sleep experience so that we enjoyed most of the benefits of deep sleep, in less time? This possibility may be closer than it sounds, thanks to new ‘sleep optimisation’ techniques. Variou...